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Let’s Say Grace

We Canadians have already celebrated Thanksgiving, one of my very favourite holidays. Every year in early October, my family joins in a huge potluck feast

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The Parable of the Theatre

Imagine a great theatre. To call it “great” does not do this theatre justice. It was immense, stunning, beautiful, impossible to fully appreciate. The exact

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Asking for Money

“I’d never want to ask anyone for money.” I hear this often, perhaps because support raising is a core piece of what sustains our ministry.

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The Cake

As a single mom raising five kids, age 10 and under, including two sets of twins, the days and nights of sacrifice are long, emotionally

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My Rifle

“This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.My rifle is my best friend. It is my life…” The Rifleman’s

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How Deep Our Loss

I was sitting at my son and daughter-in-law’s house relaxing after putting the grandkids to bed when my phone beeped. It was a message from

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Across Generations

A few years back, I was working at the desk in the library of the seminary I was attending. A group of women walked in

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In Praise of the Physical

“How I have loved my physical life,” says old Pastor Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. It is the kind of observation only an elderly person

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